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As noted, there once was a time when DB's U.S. fanbase was made up of people who solely had and went off of the Japanese original. That was the audience at the time who didn't immediately take to Drummond's Vegeta.

Horikawa's version of Vegeta very much plays up and leans heavily into the "royalty ...

Personally I'm sure it would have became a cult classic, widely traded on the fansub market

You say that as if it already wasn't exactly that back in the pre-dub years. "Remained" would be more accurate here than "became".

Also there's something this thread doesn't seem to be differentiating ...

Gohan is a dweeb and a prepubescent the entire time he’s voiced by Nadolny

Sure, Gohan is a nerd and a sheltered mama's boy as well, all that is also true and super important to the character and also part and parcel of why the "Clint Eastwood" thing is so ludicrously stupid and inappropriate ...

Keep in mind this is the same guy (either him or Chris Sabat) that apparently directed Stephanie Nadolny to make GOHAN sound “more like Clint Eastwood”

Clint Eastwood? Gohan is all of fucking 5 or 6 years old at the major points in the story when Nadolny voices him, and they wanted him to sound ...

Then-producer Barry Watson said that he felt, if Kuririn was supposed to be the strongest human on earth, that his voice should be tougher-sounding anyway .

I'm sorry, what now? :lol: :lol: :lol:

At this point, 25 years on, I have to just concede that I'm living in a completely parallel ...

Doesn't sound surprising, and tbh they're all the better for it.
Those two are overexposed at this point, and there's lots of other material that's far more deserving of their efforts.

Cosigning. Couldn't agree more. Discotek is - overall - by far the best game in town when it comes to anime ...

No. Not *everything* needs to be preserved. Its ok to let some things phase out of existence (or in this case, "into the next dimension" or whatnot).

I didn't think my comment would be that controversial.

I mean...

Something like this could never happen in NYC where I live given the high degree of crime from homeless/ migrants /junkies,

You singled out migrants as being indicative of higher crime in the city. There isn't any way around ...

I love this entire post, except the parts about the scared and anxiety attacks. Because those are a thing that actually happens and that guy you are responding to was not scared at all he just wanted to throw Acceptable/Targets/Under/The/Bus, basically any sort of boogeyman to justify his ...

Something like this could never happen in NYC where I live given the high degree of crime from homeless/migrants/junkies, but maybe we can have one of these somewhere else in the US someday.

For my whole entire life now, I've only lived an hour and change outside of NYC. I'm often traveling in ...

Dragonball ended in 1995. There's really no need to treat all these endless modern attempts to milk it even further as more than just that.

This. Thread over.

Just accept that Dragon Ball had already ended before most of its modern Western fanbase even knew what it was, and move on. Stop trying ...

Also, if you're on the internet talking about cartoons you're a faggot lefty cuck in the eyes of weirdo conservatives anyway, might as well enjoy it.

Oh please, look at how many of those very same conservative freaks are "anime waifu Kawaii-caust" Nazis from 4chan. Not to mention how many of them ...

Even if one does not intend to make a political statement, politics is still embedded in all of us, whether we like it or not. One might not be aware as to where something is coming from, but it still comes from our interactions with society, one that is absolutely influenced by politics.

Saying ...

Freeza was inspired by opportunistic land speculators at the time of the Showa bubble era because he thought those people were the worst. That in itself isn't really a political stance.

Yes it is. This is literally almost the dictionary definition of a political stance.

Real estate is a ...

I mean..yeah I do think people are reading way too much into this.

Maybe its just me and how I think of the phrase, but to me "reading too deeply into something" signifies that people are really going out of their way stretching, reaching, and grasping at straws to fit a round peg into a square ...

I mean, it’s not like Israel is the only controversial ally the U.S. has had. There’s been a long history of America allying itself with oppressive regimes.

I suppose the next one that springs to mind is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has had the full support and backing of the U.S. for eons, and ...

I genuinely think people are reading too much into it.

Given how stark the parallels are, I don't think you can really accuse people of "reading too much into it". Its kind of staring you square in the face, you don't have to make some kind of big mental leap to get to "Israel/Palestine" from ...

Dude, I never claimed the movie isn’t about Israel and Palestine because the countries aren’t literally called Israel and Palestine.

That part of my post wasn't aimed at you specifically. It was under the quote from Julie, not you.


In fact, Gunn even claimed that he tried to distance the movie ...

Boravia is a decades-old ally of the US in the film. Clark gets into hot water for stopping the invasion to prevent deaths, then flies the president of Boravia out into the desert and pins him against a cactus and tells him not do that shit again or else they would have another conversation.

The ...

I honestly think the Palestine/Israel parallels in the new Superman movie are overblown. It’s a fairly basic conflict where a large country invades a smaller one. That could be applied to just about any real world conflict, including Russia and Ukraine.

I haven't seen the new Superman yet myself ...